Fortunately/Unfortunately

[Valesse]

Unfortunately the fearsome vampire cows immediately went in search for sustenance!

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Fortunately a blancmange from the
planet Skyron in the Galaxy of Andromeda
turned all the cows into Scotsmen.

(A picture of Aragorn and his companions coming
to the relief of Minas Tirith as Scotsmen)!
(And Sauron as a blancmange)?

[Eönwë]

Unfortunately they didn't have Scottish accents.

edit: Now I'm the only member online :(

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Fortunately the cows took a dvd
Rosetta Stone Program to become
proficient in a Scots accent.

(And lots of members and guests
came online to cheer up Eonwe ).

[ninja91]

Unfortunately by the time the cows could understand the Rosetta Stone lessons, Scottish people were long gone and their accent was completely non-understandable. (is that a word? :p )

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Fortunately (for them) the cows got bored reading
for Scots accents at Oxford (under a Professor Shippey)
[Shippey found their accents non-understandable] so
they went on a cow vampire pig-blood-sucking rampage
through The Shire. :eek:

[Eönwë]

Unfortunately the were allergic to pigs.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Fortunately (for the cows) they
weren't allergic to hobbits! :eek:

[Eönwë]

Unfortunately (for the cows) they couldn't digest hobbits.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Fortunately they could digest beer
and thoroughly trashed the Green Dragon
during their annual TOGA PARTY!

[Eönwë]

Unfortunately (for the hobbits) the cows were particularly susceptive to alcohol.

[Lindale]

Unfortunately the beer ran out and they were saddened.

[Eönwë]

Fortunately they moved onto brandy (well, it must have existed in the Shire)

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Unfortunately the Master of Brandy Hall
"was not amused" when the tipsy cows
drank all the best Shire brandy (obviously
made and stored at Brandy Hall).

[Eönwë]

Fortunately (for the cows) they danced a "happy dance".

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Unfortunately the dance turned out
to be an udder disaster.

[Eönwë]

Fortunately, bad puns were banned in Middle-Earth.

[Babidi Buu]

unfortunately good puns weren't..

Are there any good puns?:rolleyes:

[Eönwë]

Fortunately the good puns made people laugh.

[wilwarin538]

Unfortunately the loud laughter attracked a large band of angry Wargs.

[Eönwë]

Fortunately they were old and toothless

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Unfortunately they had excellent wooden dentures.

[wilwarin538]

Fortunately they were too busy complaining about the slivers they were getting in their mouths (hence the angriness) to actually do any harm

[Eönwë]

Unfortunately they were still angry.

[wilwarin538]

Fortunately by this time the hobbits(that's who the Wargs are after right?) had gotten the chance to hid under a shrubbery.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Unfortunately reject insects from PJ's FOTR
movie were also under the shrubbery.

[Lindale]

Fortunately old Tom Bombadil was around.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Unfortunately Tom had arachnophobia. :eek:

[Eönwë]

Fortunately he sang it away (literally).

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Unfortunately the insects were sung into
Goldberry's garden.

[wilwarin538]

Fortunately Goldberry's garden was full of insect-eating flowers!

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Unfortunately it was also full of
flower-eating insects.

[Eönwë]

Fortunately someone clever (and also under the influence of Sauron) invented pesticides and immediately sent them by eagle-mail.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Unfortunately when they arrived Bombadil thought
they said "You've got Eagle-male" and to protect
Goldberry's honor sung the pesticides to Farmer
Maggott's mushroom field.

[Eönwë]

Fortunately, the eagles really were male.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Unfortunately the eagles didn't help Farmer
Maggott save his pesticide tainted mushrooms. :(

[Rikae]

Fortunately, the Wargs ate the pesticide-tainted mushrooms, being unable to eat the cows, who had climbed into the trees (the steaks were too high).
:smokin:

[FeRaL sHaDoW]

Unfortunately, Now that the Wargs had taken the place of Cows and the Cows had taken the place of the birds, birds now had to take the place of the Wargs. This led to a lot of confusion.

[Eönwë]

Fortunately, a dragon (winged fire-drake) came to sort things out.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Unfortunately the dragon didn't expect the
Spanish Inquisition to appear and get him
to CONFESS! CONFESS! that he hadn't really
sorted things out!

[Lindale]

Fortunately someone shot the High Inquisitor.

[Eönwë]

Unfortunately, that someone also got shot.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Fortunately, the people that got shot were actually Barrow-Wights.

[Eönwë]

Unfortunately, they didn't like getting shot

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Fortunately, they didn't have a say in the matter.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Unfortunately no one expected the
Spanish Inquisiton inquisitors to be
wearing mithril vests (which they were)
so they were uninjured and proceeded to
force the dragon to sit in a comfy chair with
nothing but some ponies for snacks until
he agreed to CONFESS.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Fortunately, the Spanish Inqusition got cake splattered all over them, and needed to go wash up.

[Lindale]

Unfortunately there was no running water.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Fortunately Barliman Butterbur provided a running beer tap.

[Eönwë]

Unfortunately using it would be a waste of good beer.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Fortunately Bilbo donated cases of Old Winyard
to the cause.

[Eönwë]

Unfortunately it all burnt on the way.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Fortunately Strider provided Bilbo with
medicinal leaves that countered the
damage to the burnt wine.

[Eönwë]

Unfortunately all the alcohol in the wine had already evaporated.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Fortunately, the smell was still there.

[Eönwë]

Unfortunately, they could not drink the smell.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Fortunately, they could smell the drinks (that were being shipped from Carn Dum)

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Unfortunately the Witch King put in
prohibition in Angmar to keep his
orcs sober.

[Eönwë]

Fortunately the Barrow-Wights came to sort out all the problems!

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Unfortunately Barrow-Wights are notoriously
sloppy drunks (especially the Wine of Dorwinion).

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Fortunately, the Barrow-Wights were not drunk at the time.

[Eönwë]

Unfortunately, they were at that particular moment.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Fortunately, at the time of the moment that the last post was written wine fell from the sky like rain and grew little wine trees!

[Eönwë]

Unfortuantely their fruits were poisonous

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Fortunately, they were all immune.

[Eönwë]

Unfortunately, the giraffes weren't.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Fortunately, the giraffes werent there to give a care. (Yay, rhymes)

[Eönwë]

Unfortunately, many horses were.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Fortunately, horses and giraffes are not the same.

[Eönwë]

Unfortunately, this didn't stop them being there.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Fortunately, Mount Zoom ran over
all of them.

[Eönwë]

Unfortunately they were still alive

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Fortunately the horses and giraffes were all scared
by lions and tigers and bears (oh my!)and ran off
to South Harad (a disputed land).

[Eönwë]

Unfortunately it was very dry in South Harad

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Fortunately, Ulmo was sick on the land. And when he's sick, it's like a monsoon.

[Eönwë]

Unfortunately, Ulmo's monsoon-sick only occured in the North and didn't reach South Harad.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Fortunately, Ulmo could get sick again.

[Eönwë]

Unfortunately, he didn't want to get sick again.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Fortunately a nice cup of athelas tea
put everything right.

[Eönwë]

Unfortunately, the cup exploded afterwards.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Fortunately Trader Sharkey "Come on down to
Orthanc, our prices are INSANE!" was happy to provide
high quality tea cups at a reasonable price with
absolutely no (mwaaaaah) strings attached.

[Babidi Buu]

Unfortunately, these were magic tea cups that poison the drinker.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Fortunately the drinker had spent years building up an
immunity to iocane powder and so was unaffected by the poison.

[Lindale]

Unfortunately the poison in the porcelain caused the drinker's hands to be burned.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Fortunately it was not porcelain at all, but stoneware.

[Eönwë]

Unfortunately, the stone they were made out of was chalk.

[Kent2010]

Fortunately this was dwarven chalk, their hardest mineral besides mithril

[Eönwë]

Unfortunately, the drinkers of the tea didn't know this.

[FeRaL sHaDoW]

Fortunately, Trader Sharkey did.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Unfortunately Trader Sharkey decided to outsource his supply
of chalk stoneware to Southron artisans, thereby driving the
thriving Hobbit stoneware industry into deep recession.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Fortunately, Sharkly couldn't make a profit from it, so gave all of the stoneware back to the hobbits.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Unfortunately (very unfortunately) a Wallmart managed
by Ted Sandyman, on the site of the the old mill, sold the
stoneware cheaply by paying Proudfeet (Proudfoots?)
minimum wage. Bill Ferny was the greeter.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Fortunately, the Wall-Mart was burned down, and Ted Sandyman went with it. There was much rejoicing!

[Lindale]

Unfortunately Bill Ferny survived and saved most of the money from the Walmart.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Fortunately (for hobbit society) he put the money
into a sub prime mortgage scheme in Hobbiton
and his insurance company was taken over in
Strider's bank rescue plan.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Unfortunately, all of Bill Ferny's savings he used for a ridiculous campaign for mayor of the Shire.

[Eönwë]

Fortunately, everyone found the campaign very entertaining.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Unfortunately, during the campaign, Ferny set up the system of Lockholes again.

[Eönwë]

Fortunately, Gandalf appeared out of nowhere.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Unfortunately, Gandalf UNCLOAKED!

[Lindale]

Fortunately Elessar arrived and everybody got distracted.

[Eönwë]

Unfortunately (for Gandalf), Elessar forced Gandalf to re-cloak

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Fortunately Arwen cheered everyone up (except her
daddy) by announcing: "Toga Party!"

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Unfortunately, Arwen's daddy grounded her.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Fortunately everyone (except Elrond)
went to her gramma's "Come as you are"
party (except for Gandalf-who had to
first get cloaked).

[Eönwë]

Unfortunatey the cieling fell down on them while the were PARTAYing.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Fortunately, the ceiling was made of jelly.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Unfortunately it was also made of peanut butter.

[Eönwë]

Fortunately, no-one was allergic to peanuts.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Unfortunately, the jelly WAS allergic to peanuts.

[Eönwë]

Fortunately (not for the jelly though), the people in the party ate the jelly.

[Lindale]

Unfortunately the peanuts were contaminated by salmonella.

[Eönwë]

Fortunately no-one ate the peanuts.

[TheOrcWithNoName]

Unfortunately, no one ate the peanuts because they were genetically modified peanuts.

[Eönwë]

Fortunately (for the peanuts), the genetic modification gave them sentience

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Unfortunately, the peanuts were eaten by someone who didn't know what 'genetically modified' means.

[Eönwë]

Fortuntaely (for the peanut eater), it didn't matter whether or not they knew what it meant.

[TheOrcWithNoName]

Unfortunately, the party came to an abrupt end by hobbits from the Health & Safety department

[Eönwë]

Fortunately (for the spirit of the party) the hobbits from the Health & Safety department were eaten by a dragon that had suddenly appeared.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Unfortunately, the dragon that ate the officials started eating everyone at the party including Will Whitfoot.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Fortunately (but not for the dragon) the party
continued for everyone quite enjoyably
inside the capacious stomach of the dragon.

[TheOrcWithNoName]

Unfortunately, the dragon had the most terrible indigestion and regurgiated the bemused Hobbits

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Fortunately for hobbit hygiene, their mums showed up
and marched them right back to their hobbit holes to
be cleaned up.

[Eönwë]

Unfortunately, the dragon was now hungry again.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Fortunately seeing Gandalf uncloaked had quite put him
off a carnivorous diet so he went to Mama Eoreth's Diner
for some veggie burgers.

[FeRaL sHaDoW]

Unfortunately, Gandalf was now hungry... and naked.

[Eönwë]

Fortunately he (Gandalf) roasted and ate the dragon.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Unfortunately Gandalf was a vegan.

[Eönwë]

Fortunately, Dragons were actually vegetables.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Unfortunately, they're broccoli. (Ugh!)

[Eönwë]

Fortunately, Gandalf like broccoli.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Unfortunately for Gandalf, Manwe delared all broccoli
dragons to be under his protection and sent them
off to southeastern Far Harad.

[Lindale]

Fortunately Gandalf stumbled upon a hidden cabbage field.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Unfortunately it was a carnivorous
wizard-eating cabbage patch.

[Eönwë]

Fortunately, it was sleeping.

[Babidi Buu]

Unfortunately, it woke up

[Eönwë]

Fortunately, it had narcolepsy

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Unfortunately Thorin & Co. didn't and had it as
part of a delicious salad with (cloaked) Gandalf
enjoying the repast (the salad dressing
being Bilbo's piquant Shire Surprise).

[Eönwë]

Unfortunately, it was poisonous to eat.

[TheOrcWithNoName]

Fortunately, Thorin found an antidote from a bunch of doc leaves & sheep's wool boiled in a stewed broth of rabbit & grasshopper

[Pitchwife]

Unfortunately, Gandalf - still a vegan - refused to drink the antidote.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Fortunately that meant all the more doc leaves & sheep's wool boiled in a stewed broth of rabbit & grasshopper for everyone else!

[Eönwë]

Unfortunately, it meant that Gandalf suffered from the hilarious (to others, at least) effects of the poison.

[Babidi Buu]

Fortunately, Thorin and Co. were amused

[Eönwë]

Unfortunately it was at Gandalf's expense.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Fortunately party caterer Wormtongue was also amused.

[Eönwë]

Unfortuantely he had eaten lots of laxatives.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Fortunately Bagend not only had lost and lots of bedrooms,
it also had lots and lots of bathrooms, WCs, whatever.

Now, have hobbits invented toilet paper or Roman Empire
type long-handled sponges? Wormy sure hopes so.

[Babidi Buu]

Unfortunately the toilets in the bathrooms became plugged and

Unfortunately for the hobbits? No, they didn't invent that stuff.. :\

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Fortunately the Gaffer loaned Bilbo one of his Hobbit-a-Potty's.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Unfortunately, it was filled with cake and they couldn't do their business in it.

[Lindale]

Fortunately, Sam found a hidden toilet.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Unfortunately, Manwe found this whole storyline
in questionable taste and sent some istari to
clean up the whole situation. (Actually they
were istari interns).

[Eönwë]

Fortunately, Aule thought that though though the storyline was funny, though in very bad taste (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L57-vQvo34E).

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Unfortunately, Aule was convinced he was
wrong when Yavanna brought him a present,
a Norwegian Blue Parrot!

[Eönwë]

Unfortunately, while he tried to persuade her that it was actually dead and not just pining for the fjords, the Spanish Inquisition came unexpectedly.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Right! I need to interrupt to point out that this thread is
displaying a distinct trend to becoming silly. Nobody enjoys a
good laugh more then me, and my wife, and her friends, come
to think of it most people enjoy a good laugh more than I do,
but that's beside the point. This is a LOTR thread, not a Monty
Python sketch, so carry on, and let's have no more of this
silliness! As you were.

[Eönwë]

Ok, sorry. But if I make it the Morgul Inquisition...? :p

Also, I was trying to tie in a loose end:

Unfortunately no one expected the
Spanish Inquisiton inquisitors to be
wearing mithril vests (which they were)
so they were uninjured and proceeded to
force the dragon to sit in a comfy chair with
nothing but some ponies for snacks until
he agreed to CONFESS.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Fortunately, the above post cleared things up and it
was not necessary for the dragon, or Brigadier Sir
Charles Arthur Strong (Mrs.),
to write a stiff letter to the Times.

[Eönwë]

Unfortunately, Bag End suddenly disappeared and everyone was left outside in the rain.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Fortunately, the rain was made out of gravy.

[Lindale]

Unfortunately the gravy was very sour.

[Babidi Buu]

Fortunately, they liked sour gravy.

[Eönwë]

Unfortunately, it was very hot gravy.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Fortunately, they had heat resistant rain suits on. (with umbrellas)

[Nessa Telrunya]

Unfortunately, there were no biscuits to enjoy the gravy.

[Eönwë]

Fortunately, none of them liked biscuits with gravy anyway.

[Nessa Telrunya]

Unfortunately, they didn't have any shovels to dig a hole in the ground for shelter.

[Eönwë]

Fortunately, there was a nearby cave.

[Nessa Telrunya]

Unfortunately, the cave contained rabid squirrels.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Fortunately, the rabid squirrels were pink.

[Eönwë]

Unfortunately, they were really bright pink

[Nessa Telrunya]

Fortunately, they had both brown and black dye on hand.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Unfortunately, the dyes that were used are (very) harmful to living creatures.

[Nessa Telrunya]

Fortunately, a warg came and ate the squirrels, so they didn't need to worry about it.

[Eönwë]

Unfortunately, the warg died of the rabies that infected the squirrels.

[Nessa Telrunya]

Fortunately, it soon stopped raining gravy.

[FeRaL sHaDoW]

Unfortunately, a pack of sparrows ate the warg’s corpse and were then taken by the rabies leading them into bloodlust rampage, only to be made even worse by the raining gravy.

[Eönwë]

Fortunately, the gravy turned into snow.

[Nessa Telrunya]

Unfortunately, the snow was green so they weren't quite sure if it was snow at all.

[Lindale]

Fortunately it turned out to be moss.

[Eönwë]

Unfortunately it was very cold.

[Nessa Telrunya]

fortunately they could sacrifice one of their own to make coats ;)

[Lindale]

Unfortunately and predictably enough no one wanted to donate their skin and argued their case to Saruman

[Nessa Telrunya]

Fortunately, Saruman decided to supply them with tye-dye cloaks.

[LadyBrooke]

Unfortunately this was so he could direct his orcs to kill them.

[Eönwë]

Fortunately (for everyone except the orcs), the orcs got frostbite.

[Nessa Telrunya]

Unfortunately, the orcs liked frostbite.

[Eönwë]

Fortunately, their toes fell off so they couldn't attack anyone.

[Nessa Telrunya]

Unfortunately they had superglue to put their toes back on.

[Boromir88]

Fortunately they lost their hands next, followed by their tongues and then their eyes...but not the ears. The ears they would always keep to hear the shouts of everyone passing by...'Dear God what are those things!?" :p

[Eönwë]

Unfortunately, their clothes were brightly coloured and hurt the eyes of those passing by.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Fortunately, orcs can grow back any lost
appendages so they ran after, found, and ate
the sparrows.

[Boromir88]

Unfortunately with the sparrows extinct, this caused a giant hole to develop in Middle-earth's food chain and all life withered away. Who knew sparrows were that important to Middle-earth's ecosystem? :p

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Fortunately Eru told Manwe to replace the sparrows
with ravens (which coincidentally explains their relative
scarcity in The Hobbit).

[Nessa Telrunya]

Unfortunately, Manwe was asleep at the time.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Fortunately, like all good wives, Varda Elenteri
covered for her negligent husband and took
care of that "sparrow/raven thing"- although
he did spend a few nights on their (granted rather
comfy) couch.

[Eönwë]

Unfortunately, Melkor got himself a new pet.

[Boromir88]

Fortunately it was a vegetarian alligator

[Pitchwife]

Unfortunately, the veggie alligator ate the last fruit of Laurelin, so the Sun was never created.

[Eönwë]

Fortunately, it swelled up and floated in the sky, which turned it into a sort of sun anyway.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Unfortunately Melkor got sunburnt.

[Lindale]

Fortunately it was only Melkor who got sunburnt.

[Nogrod]

Unfortunately, without a proper sun, the sunburns were not the primary worry of the first-born or the Maiar. The lacking of a sun was.

[Nessa Telrunya]

Fortunately, the vegetarian alligator who ate the fruit now glowed, and had somehow inflated and flew up into the sky, so now they had a green sun.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Unfortunately, this made Melkor's sunburnt skin turn green.

[Eönwë]

Fortunately, all his minions liked his new "Green" look.

[Babidi Buu]

Unfortunately, those who we're not his minions didn't.

[Boromir88]

Fortunately Melkor legally changed every inhabitant to minion status

[Lindale]

Unfortunately Manwe had legal claims over everybody being Melkor's "minions" legally and filed a case. Feanor was his lawyer.

[Babidi Buu]

Fortunately, Melkor had a better lawyer..

OOC: Or was Feanor his lawyer? :confused:

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Unfortunately, Eru still ruled against Melkor.

[Lindale]

@ Babidi: Feanor was Manwe's lawyer. Sorry for the vague pronouns.

Fortunately Manwe got distracted by Varda screaming suddenly.

[Nessa Telrunya]

Unfortunately, Varda was actually trying to make "Sunshine in a Bag"

[Eönwë]

Fortunately, she saw that Feanor had already made "sunshine in a stone" (AKA the Silmarils) and was content.

[Nessa Telrunya]

Unfortunately, when she called them "Sunshine in a Stone" it made Feanor quite angry.

[Lindale]

Fortunately Feanor was summoned again by Manwe.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Unfortunately Aiwendil acted as Feanor's barrister.

[Boromir88]

Fortunately Aiwendil bored Manwe, and everyone in court, so much with his filibuster on the history of butterflies, Feanor was acquitted and guaranteed immunity for eternity.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Unfortunately Aiwendil continued to drive vala and maia to drink
with his butterfly filibuster, since he blamed butterflies for cutting him
out of a movie version of the War of the Ring (relating to helping
Olorin escape from Orthanc).

[Eönwë]

Fortunately, a huge werewolf came to sort things out.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Unfortunately the werewolf was a movie critic
who panned PJ's cinema epics.

[Nessa Telrunya]

Fortunately the werewolf did not like how people tasted, as cheese was his favorite.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Unfortunately the werewolf ate all the
cheese in Bilbo's pantry. :(

[Eönwë]

Fortunately, Bilbo still had other food.

[Hakon]

Unfortunately, the food was moldy.

[Eönwë]

Fortunately, Sam and Ham(fast) had just picked some fresh vegetables.

[Hakon]

Unfortunately, Sauron wanted those fresh vegetables for unknown reasons.

[Boromir88]

Unfortunately Bilbo's only other food were his infamous marble cakes. Bilbo took the 'marble' part literally

[Eönwë]

Fortunately, Sauron couldn't get those fresh vegetables because Sam got his Entwife to guard them.

[Hakon]

Unfortunately, the Orcs sent to retrieve the vegetables had axes.

[Eönwë]

Fortunately, their axes were rusty and crumbled on impact.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Unfortunately Sam's entwife also crumbled on impact.

[Eönwë]

Fortunately, her husband didn't.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Unfortunately, Frodo needed Sam at the moment. It was urgent!

[Boromir88]

Fortunately Sam came to Frodo's urgent need

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Unfortunately, since Sam's Entwife crumbled on impact, there was nobody to tend to those vegetables.

[Hakon]

Fortunately, Borormir showed up in time to protect the vegetables against the Orcs.

[Boromir88]

Unfortunately Boromir, who had defeated the orcs, but had no idea how to tend vegetables and they all died

[Hakon]

Fortunately, Farmer Maggot showed up.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Fortunately, new vegetables sprouted up almost instantly.

[Boromir88]

Unfortunately the new vegetables that sprouted up inexlicably, grew out of control, strangled Farmer Maggot beneath their snaring roots and threatened to take over the Shire!

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Fortunately, the Ents came and herded them away!

[Boromir88]

Unfortunately the Ents took 'them' to mean herding away the Hobbits

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Fortunately, the Ents soon realised their mistake and put the hobbits back.

[Boromir88]

Unfortunately it takes a long time for Ents to say, or decide to do anything, so correcting their mistake actually took 33 years

[Eönwë]

Fortunately, hobbits have long lifespans.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Unfortunately, many hobbits were past their primes by that time.

[Eönwë]

Fortunately, they still had their hairy feet.

[Hakon]

Unfortunately, Melkor wanted to cut off their hairy feet for his new breed of creatures.